324 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II. 



nor so thick running as every leaf of this flower doth." It is a 

 native of Southern Europe, growing very freely in warm sandy 

 soils, and is easily increased by seed or division. Being of a 

 low spreading habit, it is suitable for the rougher parts of rock- 

 work as well as for borders. 



GLOBXJLABIA TSKSA.— Dwarf G. 



A MOST dense traiUng shrub, forming a firm mass of thyme-hke 

 verdure, about half an inch high, and dotted over with compact 

 heads of bluish-white flowers, with stamens of a deeper blue or 

 mauve. The flower heads are not half an inch across, and 

 barely rise above the foliage. It should be placed on rockwork 

 in very sandy or gritty soil, and so that it may crawl some little 

 way over the face of the surrounding rocks or stones, and in a 

 very open sunny spot in such a position it will not be so liable 

 to be overrun by coarse plants. A native of the Pyrenees, and 

 increased by division or seeds. 



There are several other Globularias in cultivation : G. nudi- 

 caulis, trichosantha, and cordifolia, but these are somewhat over- 

 rated and scarcely worthy of culture except in large collections. 

 The most desirable of them for the rockwork is the neat G, 

 cordifolia, which is a little prostrate traiUng shrub, with bluish 

 flowers. 



G-YPSOPHILA VSiO^'YSiK'Sh..— Spreading G. 



Not a brilliant plant, but valuable from its dwarf spreading 

 habit, its multitudes of pink or white flowers, veined with rose, 

 on thread-like stems, and its adaptability for rockwork or stony 

 ground. The leaves are glaucous and spread into dwarf tufts, 

 and the plant is well suited for old walls, dry banks, or any poor 

 stony soil, growing, however, in the best as well as in the worst 

 of soils, though scarcely worthy of a position where there is only 

 a small extent of rockwork. It is sometimes grown as G. repens, 

 and is a native of the Pyrenees and Alps, flowering in summer, 

 and growing six or eight inches high. 



I am by no means certain that the preceding is the best 

 worth growing of the perennial kinds. Some of the annual kinds, 

 G. muralis, of France, and G. elegans, from the Caucasus, for 

 example, are even more beautiful and profuse in bloom, and 

 well merit being naturalised on old ruins and bare rocky places. 



